Tage

See also: Tage (homonymy)

The Tage is a Fleuve which takes its source in Spain, crosses the Portugal where it throws in the Atlantic Ocean with Lisbon.

It is the longest river of Iberian peninsula (1007 km). It sprinkles in particular Abrantes and Tolède, where it is said that the blacksmiths used his water to soak the steel of the swords of the Spanish knights.

A legend affirms that Héraclès would have traced of its sword the bed of Tage around Tolède.

Toponymy

Tajo (Spanish),
Tejo (Portuguese),
Daghi or Taghi , meaning good fishing (phenician).

The Lisboètes call its estuary Mer of straw (or Mar da palha ), because of its color in end-of-day, when the setting sun makes scintillate of vast yellow this stretch of water between Lisbon and Almada.

See too

List of rivers in the world

External bonds

Localization of the large basins slopes

Be-X-old: Таґус

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